Mountains May Depart

Mountains May Depart
Chinese山河故人
Literal meaningOld friends amid the mountains and rivers
Hanyu PinyinShānhé Gùrén
Directed byJia Zhangke
Written byJia Zhangke
Produced byRen Zhonglun
Nathanaël Karmitz
Liu Shiyu
Shozo Ichiyama
StarringZhao Tao
Zhang Yi
Liang Jingdong
Dong Zijian
CinematographyYu Lik Wai
Edited byMatthieu Laclau
Music byYoshihiro Hanno
Production
companies
Xstream Pictures
Shanghai Film Group
MK2
Distributed bySihai Distribution Association (China)[1]
Tianjin Maoyan Media (China)[1]
Ad Vitam (France)
Release dates
  • 20 May 2015 (2015-05-20) (Cannes)
  • 30 October 2015 (2015-10-30) (China)
  • 23 December 2015 (2015-12-23) (France)
  • 23 April 2016 (2016-04-23) (Japan)
Running time
131 minutes
CountriesChina
France
Japan
LanguagesJin Chinese, Mandarin
Box officeCN¥32.22 million (China)
US$79,768 (United States)[2]

Mountains May Depart (Chinese: 山河故人) is a 2015 Mandarin-language drama and the 8th feature film directed by Jia Zhangke.[3][4] It competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.[5][6] and was also selected to be shown in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.[7]

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  2. ^ "Mountains May Depart". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  3. ^ "山河故人 (2015)". movie.douban.com (in Chinese). douban.com. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
  4. ^ Kevin Ma (13 February 2015). "Shanghai Film Group reveals forthcoming projects". Film Business Asia. Archived from the original on 13 February 2015. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
  5. ^ "2015 Official Selection". Cannes. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
  6. ^ "Screenings Guide". Festival de Cannes. 6 May 2015. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
  7. ^ "Toronto to open with 'Demolition'; world premieres for 'Trumbo', 'The Program'". ScreenDaily. 28 July 2015. Retrieved 28 July 2015.